Applied Research - Chip Design

Skills

About the Role

You will build agents, environments, evaluations, and post-training systems for semiconductor design and verification workflows. You will create interactive EDA environments, develop reliable rewards and evaluations, and train long-horizon agents that recover from design and tool failures.

Requirements

• Depth in RL, agents, or post-training systems.
• Ability to become fluent in semiconductor workflows.
• Experience building and debugging model-training, post-training, agent, evaluation, or adjacent experimental loops.
• Strong experimental judgment, including meaningful baselines, trace inspection, and failure attribution.
• Strong Python skills.
• Ability to build artifacts that other researchers and engineers can run, inspect, and extend.
• Ability to own ambiguous problems and keep partners and teammates informed.

Responsibilities

• Build interactive verification environments for RTL writing, repair, simulation, and formal verification.
• Design rewards and evaluations for correctness, efficiency, robustness, and performance constraints.
• Train long-horizon agents to recover from design and tool failures.
• Build environments where agents use EDA tools to modify designs and debug failures.
• Develop verifiers and rewards grounded in tests, simulation, formal methods, and design rules.
• Run credit-assignment experiments with delayed feedback across multiple tools.
• Create reusable evaluations for correctness, recovery, and generalization.

Benefits

• Flexible work in San Francisco, New York, London, or remote
• Visa sponsorship
• Relocation support
• Professional development budget
• Team off-sites
• Conference attendance